Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Simmering with supernatural elements & featuring familiar & fan-favourite characters from the immensely popular drama The Vampire Diaries it&s The Originals from The Vampire Diaries executive producerwriter Julie Plec This sexy new series centres on the Original vampire family & the dangerous vampirewerewolf hybrid Klaus who returns to the magical melting pot that is the French Quarter of New Orleans--a town he helped build centuries ago Acting on a mysterious tip that a plot is brewing against him Klaus& questions lead him to a reunion with his diabolical former protege Marcel a charismatic vampire who has total control over the human & supernatural inhabitants of the Crescent City Determined to help his brother Klaus find redemption Elijah follows Klaus & soon learns that Hayley has also come to the French Quarter searching for clues to her family historyand has fallen into the hands of a powerful witch named Sophie Elijah is soon forced to side with Marcel&s enemies in order to keep Klaus in line & to help Hayley Meanwhile Klaus & Elijah&s sister Rebekah must decide if she will leave Mystic Falls to join her brothers in New Orleans & help them to reclaim their storied hometown & all its extraordinary offerings With the same calibre of thrilling drama as The Vampire Diaries this is The Originals ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Mikaelson family tragedies & triumphs continue as hit series The Originals enters its third season The Original vampire-werewolf hybrid Klaus Mikaelson & his brother Elijah have spent one thousand years fighting to protect their dysfunctional family but now that Klaus & the hybrid Hayley share an infant daughter Hope the stakes are higher than ever In the second season Klaus & Elijah united against their resurrected mother Esther who tortured them with demons from their pasts in an effort to persuade them to surrender their vampire bodies & become mortal Esther however was only the harbinger as Klaus learned that a long-standing curse had marked Hope for a life of isolation & terror at the hands of Esther's sister the witch Dahlia whose defeat came at great cost to the family Season three finds Klaus & Elijah estranged from each other even as both brothers adjust to life with their long-lost sister Freya Hayley suffers mightily at the hands of Klaus's petty vengeance while Marcel & Davina rule the city under a new status quo Meanwhile Cami & Vincent find themselves caught up in a surprising mystery involving the newest resident of New Orleans -- the first vampire ever sired by the Mikaelsons a thousand years ago ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All 13 episodes from the fourth season of the American fantasy TV show This spin-off from ' The Vampire Diaries' follows the Mikaelson vampire siblings Klaus (Joseph Morgan) Elijah (Daniel Gillies) & Rebekah (Claire Holt) as they battle to retake control of New Orleans the city they helped to build In this season five years on from the Mikaelson's worst defeat Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) has become the sole vampire king of the city & holds Klaus captive while his siblings remain in a state of slumber When they are revived by Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) the Mikaelsons race to rescue Klaus but find they also have other ancient threats to face The episodes are ' Gather Up the Killers' ' No Quarter' ' Haunter of Ruins' ' Keepers of the House' 'I Hear You Knocking' ' Bag of Cobras' ' High Water & a Devil's Daughter' ' Voodoo in My Blood' ' Queen Death' ' Phantomesque' 'A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken' ' Voodoo Child' & ' The Feast of All Sinners' ...

It's 1766 The oldest vampires in the world siblings Klaus Elijah & Rebekah Mikaelson have rebuilt New Orleans to great glory The witches live on the fringes in the bayou & the werewolves have fled But still Klaus isn't satisfied No kingdom is complete without a queen to sit beside the king Klaus has spent years trying to find a witch who will resurrect his love Vivianne When he finally finds a witch powerful enough & willing to perform the spell happiness suddenly seems within reach But things aren't as simple as they seem & the witch has an agenda of her own ...

It's the year 1722 Ever since the siblings Klaus Elijah & Rebekah Mikaelson landed on the shores of New Orleans they have been fighting to claim the city as their own They are the oldest vampires in the world trying to share the city with the witches & the werewolves Enter Vivianne Raised as a witch she is betrothed to a werewolf for a union that should bring peace between the witches & the werewolves She is the only girl in New Orleans off limits to the Mikaelsons Klaus immediately plans to make Vivianne his own Can the vampires cling on to their territories in the city? Or will Vivienne & Klaus trigger a battle bigger than anything New Orleans has ever known? ...

Covering 138 billion years in some 100 pages a calculatedly concise wryly intelligent history of everything from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization With wonder wit & flair-and in record time & space-geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere from the creation of stars & galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere & oceans to the origin of life & human civilization Bercovici marries humor & legitimate scientific intrigue rocketing readers across nearly fourteen billion years & making connections between the essential theories that give us our current understanding of topics as varied as particle physics plate tectonics & photosynthesis Bercovici's unique literary endeavor is a treasure trove of real compelling science & fascinating history providing both science lovers & complete neophytes with an unforgettable introduction to the fields of cosmology geology climate science human evolution & more ...

Nations are not trapped by their pasts but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted we need to understand its origins Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order This book starts with the very beginning of mankind & comes right up to the eve of the French & American revolutions spanning such diverse disciplines as economics anthropology & geography The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today ...

A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War & the pre-war international system William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century & suggests instead that there were powerful forces operating in favour of the maintenance of peace He discusses key issues ranging from the military public opinion economics diplomacy & geopolitics to relations between the great powers the role of smaller states & the disintegrating empires In this new edition the author assesses the extensive new literature on the war's origins & the July Crisis as well as introducing new themes such as the relationship between economic interdependence & military planning With well-structured chapters & an extensive bibliography this is an essential classroom text which significantly revises our understanding of diplomacy political culture & economic history from 1870 to 1914 ...

Exploring the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 & why a European conflict developed into a war that spanned the globe The Origins of the Second World War argues that this was not just ' Hitler's War' but one that had its roots & origins in the decline of the old empires of Britain & France & the rise of ambitious new powers in Germany Italy & Japan who wanted large empires of their own This fourth edition has been revised throughout covering the origins of the war from its background in the First World War to its expansion to embrace the Soviet Union Japan & the United States by the end of 1941 Creating a comprehensive & analytical narrative while remaining a succinct overview of the subject this book takes a thematic approach to the complex range of events that culminated in global warfare discussing factors such as economic rivalry rearmament & domestic politics & emphasising that any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must be global in scope Containing updated references & primary source documents alongside a glossary a chronology of key events & a Who's Who of important figures this book is an invaluable introduction for any student of this fascinating period ...

& How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we too live in dark times& Washington Post Hannah Arendt&s chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi & Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom exploring how propaganda scapegoats terror & political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination &A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four& The New York Times& The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis & the &banality of evil& has become a surprise bestseller& Guardian ...